Regular expression for all printable characters in JavaScript

Question

Looking for a regular expression for that validates all printable characters. The regex needs to be used in JavaScript only. I have gone through this post but it mostly talk

Answer 1

For non-unicode use regex pattern ^[^\x00-\x1F\x80-\x9F]+$

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If you want to work with unicode, first read Javascript + Unicode regexes.

I would suggest then to use regex pattern ^[^\p{Cc}\p{Cf}\p{Zl}\p{Zp}]*$

• \p{Cc} or \p{Control}: an ASCII 0x00..0x1F or Latin-1 0x80..0x9F control character.
• \p{Cf} or \p{Format}: invisible formatting indicator.
• \p{Zl} or \p{Line_Separator}: line separator character U+2028.
• \p{Zp} or \p{Paragraph_Separator}: paragraph separator character U+2029.

For more information see http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html